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Judiciary To Monitor Spy Program

// January 18th, 2007 // Security & Privacy

The Bush Administration has agreed to judicial oversight of it’s domestic spying program (which I’ve discussed previously).

In other words, the Administration has (finally) agreed to allow the FISA court to do it’s job, rather than subverting it as they’ve done for the past 5 years.

It’s amazing how little has been done by Congress and the Judiciary – even in the age of frigid Presidential job approval ratings – to reign in the gross excesses of executive power that have been foisted on the American people since 9/11.

It’s encouraging to hear this news and hope that it is the beginning of a tide-shift in reclaiming the civil liberties lost these last few years.